community management

How people silence each other on social networks Members Public

The interplay between harassment and silencing is one of networks ways that users effectively networks each other on social networks.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
toxic communities

Twitter: why context collapse turns it into a battleground - and drives people away Members Public

The very structure of Twitter is creating the toxic atmosphere on there. Can it be fixed without completely reinventing itself?

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
X (Twitter)

The Atlantic closes its comments - and makes them more important, too Members Public

The Atlantic joins many other sites in turning off comments - but that doesn’t mean its abandoning reader commentary.

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Adam Tinworth
audience engagement

What Makes A Troll A Troll? Members Public

Research shows that two factors predict trolling behavior.

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Adam Tinworth
community

The Washington Post is also using AI for comments Members Public

Looks like the “AI for comments” trend is on the match [https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2017/06/22/the-washington-post-leverages-artificial-intelligence-in-comment-moderation/?utm_term=.0026b5192c45] : > The Washington Post has launched ModBot, a software application that utilizes artificial intelligence to moderate comments. The proprietary technology uses machine learning to automatically filter

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
artificial intelligence

The New York Times battles trolls with AI Members Public

I’ve spent a significant chunk of today reading about AI, for another writing project. That led me back to a piece, about the New York Times harnessing AI [https://www.recode.net/2017/6/13/15789178/new-york-times-expanding-comments-artificial-intelligence-google] system called Perspective to help with comment moderation: > “What Moderator really

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Adam Tinworth
artificial intelligence

Zetland: journalism as (profitable) community service Members Public

Another set of liveblogged notes from Digital Media Europe 2017. Typos, inaccuracy and howling crimes against grammar and syntax probable. Lea Korsgaard, Editor-in-Chief, Zetland, Denmark Do you create a community to monetise it? No. You create a community to serve it. If you are to build community, you need to

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Adam Tinworth
business models

Zeit Online: hunting the millennial online – and offline. Members Public

I’m at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe conference [https://events.wan-ifra.org/events/digital-media-europe-2017] in Copenhagen for the next few days. This is the first of my liveblogged session notes from the event. Christian Röpke, CEO, ZEIT ONLINE Die Zeit [http://www.zeit.de/index] has a 500,000

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
audience development